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I drew a more complex comic yesterday but just replaced it with this new Dustinland strip. I need to fix the longer one. Both are about how polarized Trump has made this country. The new comic I just posted shows the result of this. The other longer strip I’m working on is about how authoritarian leaders get us to this point. I think I’ll have it fixed by next week, but who knows. By then we could be dealing with some other horrible thing and I’ll have to draw a comic about that instead, or maybe just skip the whole political thing in favor of a “kids say the darnedest things” strip for some stress release.

In other news, follow me on Facebook because I finally have a fan page! Yes, Facebook is evil and helped us get to this horrible place, but hey, um, people still use it. So I mean, don’t use it if you aren’t already. But if you do use it, follow me there. High five.

This week’s Dustinland comic is about how I fight depression in these dark days. I mean, man, it’s getting pretty bad. When those kids were being taken from their parents, I just didn’t know what to do. I remember drawing an extra comic just to deal with it. Staying up late to do something, anything. Now of course the problem hasn’t be solved, but things are so bad, we’re just happy it’s not getting worse.

Anyway, yeah, if you want to look at it rationally, we are PRETTY fucked. I mean, it’s bad. But emotionally, that can really screw you over unless you just accept it in an eastern “life is suffering” sort of way, or… or I don’t know. You laughing at farting bunny comics.

“I’d rather be a humorous fool than a serious jackass.” — Way of the Peaceful Warrior

As I say in this week’s new Dustinland comic, this attitude of “not my problem” is really screwing this country over. It’s sort of a Libertarian / capitalist thing that also winds up getting used by the selfish and lazy simply to justify their greedy lifestyles. Ironically, a lot of people who feel this way also call themselves godly, religious folks, which is really quite impressive, when most major religions are based around selflessness and caring for the needy and less powerful among us.

But hey, it’s fun being a hypocrite. And who wants problems? Problems are stressful. And freedom isn’t free. So just leave me alone and let me hide in my fortified compound with my guns, and don’t bother me unless I get cancer or my house blows down in a hurricane or gets flooded by climate change or my industry needs a subsidy. THEN I’ll come calling for a bail out because then it will be my problem.